SPL: Professional-Grade ANSI Type 1 Sound Level Metering
Turn your iOS device into a calibrated acoustic lab. Capture time-stamped measurements, analyze octave bands, and achieve Type 1 accuracy for professional reporting and compliance.
Publisher
Andrew Smith
Category
Music
Downloads
174K+
User Rating
3.8/5
Total Ratings
200
Locales
8
Precision at a Glance
Discover the interface used by 174K+ users.
Professional SPL Pro app interface displaying a decibel reading of 90.2 with peak measurement mode and technical audio settings.
Professional-Grade Precision in Your Pocket
The tools that make this app stand out, trusted by 174K+ users.
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ANSI Type 1 Compliance
Access professional modes like Slow, Fast, Impulse, and Leq with A/C weighting filters that meet the highest international standards.
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Geo-Tagged Data Logging
Effortlessly store results with integrated GPS and time stamps, then export data directly to your computer for official reports.
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Calibrated Mic Integration
Use internal mic compensation or connect professional external interfaces like iTestMic2 for laboratory-quality measurements up to 130 dB.
About the app
Everything you need to know about SPL.
Description
SPL is a professional-grade digital sound level meter (decibel meter) for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. It includes all of the modes, filters, and features that you would expect from a professional ANSI or IEC Sound Level Meter. All filters and averaging modes meet or exceed the criteria for ANSI Type 1 standards or better. SPL is created from the same team who brought you the Audio Toolbox and ATB Plus.
Store Results -- Uses the same powerful Save / Recall engine as our premier app, AudioTools. Allows storing GPS and time-stamped results, and exporting them to your computer.
You can also use SPL with our calibrated iPhone measurement mic, iTestMic, or iAudioInterface.
The screen flips if you turn the phone upside down, so that you can point the built-in iPhone mic directly at the sound source.
*** Modes: Slow, Fast, Impulse, Peak, and Leq.
*** Filters: A and C weighting, and 10 octave band filters.
*** Includes a resettable Max field to track the highest reading.
*** Includes a reference field (except in Leq mode) so that you can set a reference level and do seat-to-seat comparisons.
The SPL meter can be fully calibrated. It comes preset with the calibration for a typical iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Most iOS devices will be within a few dB of this reading. If you have access, even temporarily, to a calibrated sound level meter, just use the calibration field on the settings scree to match the meter, and you will be accurately calibrated.
Also, see our other professional-grade audio apps: AudioTools, our premier suite of professional-caliber audio and acoustics test apps, Speaker Pop, to test speaker polarity, and RTA, a real-time analyzer for the iPhone.
And, we have a group of calibrated, accurate measurement microphones, including iTestMic,iTestMic2, and iAudioInterface2, that allows full professional results for Type 1 or Type 2 measurements.
This will allow measuring a range from approximately 30 dB SPL to 130 dB SPL. Each mic will include a calibration factor that you will enter into the SPL app for calibrated measurements. This mic will also work with Speaker Pop, our speaker polarity tester, FFT, RTA, ETC, and other acoustical measurement apps in our AudioTools app that is available now.
Also, see our iAudioInterface2 system, which supports any pro test and measurement mic.
Now includes an iPhone internal mic compensation filter, to cancel out the low-frequency roll-off present in the iPhone and other iOS devices.
See our other audio apps, including AudioTools.
Latest Version
7.9
Size
24.7 MB
First Released
Dec 3, 2008
Ready for Professional-Grade Measurement?
Join thousands of acoustic consultants and engineers who trust SPL for ANSI Type 1 accuracy. Turn your iOS device into a laboratory-grade decibel meter today.
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